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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
Aphorisms from Africa.

De coolies spring hides the closest
'mongst de rocks.
Las years hot spell cools of mighty
fas'.
Light niger too much TO- de so back
hos.
De meller apple give far warnin, 10 II
fall.
De noise O. de wheels don't measure de
load in de wagon.
Wild goose in de wheat fieP don't go
to sleep.
,rwon't hep de crop to plant new
tangled sort O. corn with fifteen ears to
de stalk on de po' broomstraw fiep dat
sort O. land got all it kin do raisin' one
ear to de hill.
DE dog dat try to scratch mole ont de
rroun' amt got 'nough edication to hurt
lin
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

LITTLE Dor - Dick, why is mamma
like horse, papa like a COW and you
like a pig ?
little Dick-I guess l don't know,
Dot?
Mamma like horse because she can't
climD tree.
Yes.
And papa is like COW because he
can't stand on his head
Yes, and why am like pig?
Cause you don't oier me any of your
candy.
THE man who was to publish a news
paper to suit everybody fell out OF Noah
ARK and was drowned
A BAD habit to get into--a coat that is
not paid for.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

rDlsoN mas remdTkaDle mementO OF
Beecher at his house in Llewellyn Park.
lis phonograph for impressing on a soft
metal sheet the utterance of the human
voice, and then emitting it again by the
turning OF a crank, has never been put to
any very practical use, but he has util-
lied II to make collection of famous
Vol es. Instead of asking his visitors for
their autographs or photographs, he has,
in two or three hundred instances, re-
quested them 10 speak few sentences
into phonograph. He has kept ths
plates in cabinet, and occasionally he
runs some OF them through the machine,
which sends out the words as at first ut
tered. r.s
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
SCRIPS AND SCRAPS.

LAST years gross receipts of the mail
service are placed at forty-eight million
dollars.
AN Eastern steel company has con-
tracted to supply the navy with sixty-fve
tons of steel gun forgings, TO cost nearly
tfty-four thousand dollars.
IT has been estimated that the power
exerted by the tail OF whale eighty feet
long and twenty feet across the hukes OF
the tail, in propelling it at the rate OF
twelve miles an hour, is equal to the
power of l45 horses.
A PARROT belonging TO a gentleman of
Chicago is said by him TO be one hundred
years old, The owner has letters dated
in 1870, referring to "Old Putnam the
bird, and commenting on his many ac-
complishments, The bird is an agile and
talkatiye as young one.
tbs cent which, until recently, was
unknown in the South, is gradually find
ing favor. A scheme was put into prac-
tce at one time for the flooding OF the
untry with the copper currency, but it
WIS in vain. Later however, the de-
sired object Is steadily being sccomp-
I a. -
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

A NOVEL custom still prevails among
ladies in some parts which will commend
itself to maiden ladies growing old. 1t
is said that she who puts on silk-knit
garter the first day OF the year and
wears it continuously will certainly
marry during the year. 1t is said that
the mother OF a young lady, being very
much pleased with the silken garter
worn by young lady for this purpose,
proposed to knit fellow" for it but
the young lady declined, saying she had
sufficient confidence in the bewitching
circlet, and preferred the natural coming
of the "felloW,"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
NO ONE NEED
Remain
A DYsPEPTIC.

81 have been suffering for
over two years with Dyspep-
sis. For the last year |
could not take drink of cold
water nor eat any meat with
out vomiting it up. My life
was a misery. | had had re-
commended Simmons Liver
Regulator, of which / am
now taking the second bottle,
and the fact is that words
cannot express the relief |
feel. My appetite is very
good, and digest everything
thoroughly. | sleep well now,
and | used to be very restless.
l am fleshing up fast; good
strong food and Simmons
Liver Regulator have done it
all. l write this in hopes of
bene6ting some one who has
suffered as | did, and would
take OATH TO these statements
if desired"
4. S. BALLoU, Syracuse, Neb.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02
A Young Raee. Horse owner.

Here is little man l2 years oil |, prob
ably the youngest and weatn.est jdvc-
nile Tace-horse owner in the worli Ills
name is ID. j. Mccarthy, OF san Fran.
els o. Although he wears KIN ,e breeches
and roundabout jacket, he sports mans
season badge from his buttonhole. His
father gave the boy two years ago
a pair OF Shetland ponies and wagon,
paying Sl05 for the outfit, with WI i,a
to amuse himself outside of scho II
hours, on Saturdays and during school
vaiat ons. The young i'.low great :
enjoyed his outfit, which was a ia. ura
OF the drives through tn PARK an
down the beach to the Cliff House.
Last year the youth sought a higher
grade OF horsefesh, aud, taking a
lancy TO young runner, traded his
shetland pony equipage for il, roctiyin
$50 TO boot, The horse obtained is
g. IL, Todd, winner OF the Derhy this
month ht Chicago, by which NJ sttr Me,
Carhy won about $4,000, The yoaA !,
man took $4,000 of this money an |
hou ;ht fodd's brother which ypudg
horss has given evidence OF grel It sp,,
ana won number OF minor local eV 'nts
The rest of the money he pm in tho
bank, Master Mcl arlhy no. ony talks
tUf equal 10 some OF the Veterans, ut
is good scholar ior ON OF las a5e, an /
talks very ably on tine psJugces an 1
growth OF California etc,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

The hot wave reminds me OF little
study in economy that caused loss to
IT. Louis oil several millions OF dollars,
AMI when Kept away settlement OF
2 ~ people. You know the old story
ol = iuin coming to st. Louis to locat
his -uOps? Well, he had settled on th /,
civ la .is mind, and even the rapacty
o, the real IS lte owners did not tcrriiy
hLn. | EnoE from what h. toli me thaI
he cnnsi rrr II. Louis the most centr
site Tor MS purpose, and was oAiy induce
To change mas Intentions by IA mere accl
dent He ran down from Chicla lao ono
very hot day. 1t WAS regular Scor, her,
and the OIL timer was slipping his sherry
co lOler, with its tropical tri innings,
with great gusto. Pullman had not 90 ne
prepared ior Saharan expedition, anl
when he ventLred out on Fourth sire t
in plug hat, black Prince Albert ami
heavy suting, he imagined himself
standing on a thin crust that separated
the city from the fires OF Tophet.
George NJ. was practical man, and
he instantly began figuring on the effects
OF the climate on the human system. He
eventually concluded that a man en-.
gagged at manual labor was deprecated
20 per cent. His calculations looked
like table of logarithms representing
loss OF vitality, time for drinking water
in the shop, general feebleness and men,
tai stagnation induced by excessive
caloric. Then he determined that he
could not risk his capital. This stor,
has never been published, but | guess
| il Pullman had reekoned the saving il
fuel in firing his boilers, he would hay,
stuck to his first choice and built hi
village on the outskirts OF this dity.
SCRiPS AND SCRAPS.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-12-02

Why, II between my book and my boy |
choose my book, why should not God
leave me with my books2 My hateful
books.
But I was not harsh. was only
little impatient. Because, you see his
lesson was 80 easy, SO simple. Ah, me,
there were two OF us trying to read this
afternoon. There were two easy, simple
lessons. Mine was such very simple,
easy, pleasant, loving one to learn. Just
line, Just little throb OF pati nee OF
genteness, Of love, that would have made
my own heart glow and laugh and sing.
The letters were so large and plain the
words SO easy and the sentences so short.
AMI 1? Oh, pity me, | missed every
word. | did not read one line Alright.
See, here is my copy now; all blurred
and blistered with tears and heartache,
all marred and misspelled and blotted.
| am ashamed to show 1t to the Master.
And yet know He will be patient with
me; | know how loving and z ntle He
has been all these years teaching me
these simple lessons i failed upon
to-day. But when my little pupil
stumbled on a single worlds my time,
then, 50 much more precious than the
Masters that | cannot teach the little
lesson more than once?
Ah friend, we do not waste time when
we plat scourges for ourselves. TIL 50
hurrying days, these busy, anxious,
shrewd, ambitious times OF ours are vast
ed when they take our hearts away from
patient gentleness, and give us fame for
love and gold for kisses. Some day,
then, when our hungry souls will seek
for bread our selfish god will give us
stone. Life is not deep, profound, per-
picking problem. 1t is simple, easy
lesson, such as any child may read. You
cannot find its solution in the ponderous
tones of the old fathers the philosophers,
the investigators, the theorists 1t is not
on our book shelves. But in the warmest
corner of the most unlettered heart it
glows in letters that the blindest may
read sweet, plain, simple, easy, loving
lesson. And when you have learned it,
brother of mine, the world will be better
and happier. r. j. Brdete.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
A Glaring Pension Fraud.

The most striking of the many glar-
ing frauds invited by the government
under the loose provisions of the arrears
of pensions act, is the case of Frank
Patterson, of western New York. who
very recently received the largest pen
sion check ever paid under the pension
laws. The amount was S13, 322.
A failure of the thieving combina-
ton that perpetrated the fraud upon
the government to divide the swag ac-
cording to contract, led to the exposure
of the whole transaction, and it is as
certained that it was neither more nor
less than a deliberately studied and ex-
ecuted theft by perjury and forgery.
Patterson did not suffer blindness nor
any other ailment from service in the
army, and the same man was bribed to
make two affidavits, under different
names, to establish the claims.
The head thief appears to be DIR. r.
n. Mills. who has secured most of the
money. and failed to pay his contract
price for perjury and forgery. The re-
suit is naked exposure of the whole
fraud, and the probable transfer of the
head thief, the blind pensioner, and
the perjured witnesses to the peniten-
Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
The Blue and the Gray.

One of the most interesting events of
the approaching Fourth of July will be
the contemplated reunion at Gettys-
burg of the surviving members of the
Philadelphia Brigade and the survivors
of Pickett's Division. One of the
most famous charges made during the
war was that of Picket's Division at
Gettysburg and their repulse by the
Philadelphia Brigade was equally IA
nous. The survivors of these two
commands will meet on the spot where
the great clash of arms occurred, and
they will meet as citizens of a common
country, without any but the most
friendly feelings for each other. There
is nothing novel about this reunion.
For years Northern and Southern sol
dierS have met in their various organ
lied capacities and exchanged hos
FATALITIES and cordial greetings. There
never has beeI any ill-will manifested
lOhdlO CdOA OlHOI ny luC SlCdl uldSS
of Northern and Southern men who
bore the brunt of battle. Within an
hour after Lee had surrendered the
wearers of the blue and the gray were
fraterniZing, and almost annually since
the war there have been such meetings
as that to take place at Gettysburg
next week. There are no resentments,
and need not be any, except when
Forthern and Southern idiots insist
upon it that the Lost Cause shall be
honored the same as the Union cause.
The true Union man, whether he was
soldier or not, freely and heartily for
gives those who fought in the wrong,
installing the many for right. All
ill-feeling would have passed away
within one year after the close of the
war, had it not been for Office seekers |
who hope to be benefited by keeping up |
the strife and ill-will.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
A Kansas Year.

The Kansas City Times very truth
says:
IAN abundant harvest is almost as
sured for the state of Kansas. The
season has been favorable in the ex-
IRENE, and the farmers have awaited
themselves of the opportunity to gain
a place in the van Of agricultural COM
mOnwealths. Abundant rains have
made them happy, and the result is a
largely increased acreage of corn and
other crops.
1t is estimated that the fields which
have been broken during this season
exceeds those of any previous season
many times over. The prairies of the
western portions of the state are being
rapidly converted into orchards and
groves, and great interest is manifested
in the growing of small fruits.
All of this is the beginning of that
destiny allotted to the midway state
and the immigration which industry
and plenty attracts from the east will
make the record of Kansas for 1887 a
most enviable one.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

3,SO9.S6

In the statement of immigration for
the last and the current year, the official
figures are followed embracing no al
lOwance for immigrants from Canada
or Mexico. If 10000 be added for
those, the aggregate population, July 1,
1887, would be 81, 763, 3l6, unless the
increase by excess of births over deaths
has been smaller during the present
than during the proceeding decades.
Without any allowance for Canadian
immigration, the population July l
would appear, on this basis. to be about
81 200, O00.-N. 7. Tribune.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Solomon News and Notes.

Children's Day was appropriately OBJ
served at the Methodist church last
Sunday. A large congregation assem-
bled last Sunday evening to listen 20
the recitations and singing of the child
rem.
Rev. j. r. Cooper preached at Mt
Pleasant and POheta last Sunday.
1t is reported that there is gang of
r. r. graders at work west of Solomon
for the c. & R. 1. rail road.
The chinch bugs are doing lively
work on the corn in every direction
from town.
The township bonds were carried
yesterday by an overwhelming majority.
For 221 against 8. The bonds were
for $4,000 to give the Santa Fe the
right of way through the town.
Several R. R. graders were on the
street this morning.
Petitions are out this morning to call
an election to vote bonds for the Solo
mon Valley, Gypsum and Gulf r. r.
Mr.. Field is moving into his new
residence to-day.
Mrs. NJ. Nicolay, of Abilene, is visit
ing her son Mr.. J. 7. Nicolay.
Mr.. Marine, of Indiana, who has
been living here for a short time for
the health of his family is about to re-
turn home. His family is enjoying
much better health, and it is possible
he may return to Kansas after selling
out in the East.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

While soldiers themselves differ wide
ly as to the wisdom of the dependent
pension bill, some unfolding and others
censuring Cleveland for his veto, the
sanguinary heroes who did not make up
their minds to do any fighting till the
war was safely over are loudly denounc-
ing him for vetOing this measure.
While the soldiers have their hand in
the resolution business it might be
well for them to pass one disclaiming
any responsibility for the utterances of
these silly demagogues who thus as
sumo to speak for them.-EmpOrid
Democrat,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The Atlanta Constitution sensibly
says: AS to the confederate flags, we
may say that the cOnfederacy is dead,
and does not need them. The whole
business is a bubble that need only to
be looked at in a common sense way.
There are fools at the north and at the
south. Between these the nation must
sheer. Those who captured the con-
federate flags had considerable fighting
to do, and they are entitled to keep
them. Wherever they are Kept they
are the evidence of the valOr of both
sides :,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

While many countries, Great Britain
in particular, who formerly received
most of their wheat from the United
States, are importing at present the
bulk of their wheat and flour from
parts of Asia and other foreign
countries. We are the only country
that can successfully raise corn. Corn
is king of our cereals. In time. and it
is in the near future, Wa will supply
nearly all of the civilized world with
the bulk of their meats. There are but
few states in the Union that can raise
corn as successfully and show as large
yields as Kansas. In less than five
years Kansas will stand at the head of
every state IN the Union in the amount
of corn raised.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

On the thirty-fourth day of the Jacob
Sharp trial, the jury after being out
but thirteen inmates, returned with a
verdict of guilty Our dispatch says:
"When the foreman in answer to the
query as to what the verdict was, an
swered guilty, Sharp's head dropped
upon his breast and that lie looked
completely crushed" He was re-
lnanded to Jail. Sharp is an old man,
and in very poor health, his ilI-gOtten
wealth can bring but little comfort to
him now.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The way that justice has finally over
taken Justice TOlliver, of Kentucky,
ought to be warning to all short
sighted and narrOw-minded men.
Tolliver's mistake, after killing twenty
five or thirty men, was to go into poll
ties. He did very well as an old-fash-
toned Kentucky slayer, but when he
outraged the ballot box and added the
functions of ledge to his hair trigger
rifle he became a public menace. And
they rose and smOte him. Selah To
pekG Capital.
1t may be unkind to speak of it,
under the circumstances, but Craig Toll
liver was not a representative of the
shotgun Democracy. of which one may
read almost any day in the extreme
Republican press. Craig Tolliyer was
a Republican, and in his untimely death
the Republican party of Rowan county
loses a shining light.-MdncheSter Union,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The New York Star, in an able edit
orial under the head of Randall and
the Democracy" says: 1.-The very es-
sence of our sentiments is that the ma
jority shall rule, and this applies to par
ty organizations as well as to the pOpu-
lar vote. Four-fifths of the Democrats
of this country believe that the tariff
should be reconstructed, that war taxes
should be abolished, and that the cost
Of the necessities of life-clothing fuel,
food and the implements of industry
should be reduced to the lowest posi-
BILE figure. Furthermore, the Demo-
cratic party is pledged to bring about
these reforms. Why should Mr.. Ran
dali, at the head of 20 per cent of the
party in congress, be permitted to stuli-
fly the so percent headed by Carlisle
and Morrison?
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Abilene trotted out all her cats this
morning in honor of the arrival of the
Santa Fe in that city. Salina will do
as well in couple of weeks. If our
tOnI-cats don't make more yOwing than
Abilene's, it will be because the world
comes to an end before that time
Sdtind Journal.
Your tOm-catS will have to get over
their yOwling and treat the Santa Fe
decent, in regard to the right-Of-way
through your city, or they will not run
the spur from the Abilene yards UP to
your played out, puff-ball village.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The Chicago lnter-Ocedn remarks ::
ut is nip and tuck between California
and Kansas. They are both young, but
among the most prosperous states in
the Union. Kansas is four years young
er than California, is about one-half the
size, but it has over 1.000, 900 residents.
1t produced last year 100000 bushels
of wheat, 126,OOO,O 900 bushels of corn,
and hogs and cattle unnumbered. Cal
ifornia produced more wheat, 36,000,-
600. and her vineyards and citrus fruits
are just beginning to add largely to her
wealth.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Let the good work 60 on. Jacob
Sharp, of New York, the lobbiest and
briber, has been brought to justice at
last, and in his old age fills convicts
cell.
Six judges and clerk Of election in
Baltimore have been convicted of fraud
ulent practices on election boards.
Two of the Fidelity bank officers are
in jail.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

a republican paper says: ''SOme-
body who takes personal interest in
Adjutant General Drum ought to adj
wise him to muzzle himself securely.
He only aggravates his own case every
time he opens his mouth. The best
thing he can do under the circumstances
is to keep very quiet" The great
mistake the President made was his
neglect to put the official muZZle on all
his political enemies as soon as he took
the oath of Office.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Garden City Sentinel: jefferson said
that man who caused two blades of
grass to grow where but one grew be-
fore was a public benefactor. That
was so in Virginia where trees grew
all over the country till they were cut
down, and grass never grew till it was
planted. Had he lived in this part of
Kansas, he would have said that the
man who made one tree grow where
none grew before was public bene-
factor.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The low prices, and costs of seeding,
harvesting and marketing the wheat
crop, admOnish the farmers of Kansas
to touch not and handle not the crop.
Corn is king, everything eats corn,
from an elephant down to a chicken.
1t makes our beef and pork, it increases
the flow and richness of milk. A
farmer told us that a few days ago he
sold three year old heifer to a butcher
in town, for forty-twO dollars, and that
the heifer cost him about five dollars to
raise. Farmers, raise cattle, hogs, corn,
oats and other summer crops. We
think flax would pay well if we had oil
mills, to convert the seed into Oil, and
oil cake. We want paper mills to use
the lint in manufacturing paper
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The prohibition amendment failed in
the Massachusetts legislature, the Re
publicans have large majority in that
body, and the prohibitionists are mad.
The Boston Herald says that under the
new license law there is more effective
prohibition of the sale of liquors in
Massachusetts than ever before.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Notice For Publication.

Kansas, May 2G, 1887. w. W.T.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his intention 10
make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the Clerk
District Court, at Abilene, Kas., on July Sth,
1887 viz: Edward l.. Stevens, II. p. 2i1S9 for the
w i, n w L, sec. II, t Is, S. r +.
lie names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
OF, said land, viz: Andrew Lasure, Andrew Red
dick, Amassa JeffcOat and John McNaul, all of
Abilene, Kas. [40-6l S. NJ. PALMER, Register.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Population 81, 700, 600.

The most accurate computation for
the increase of population during TWEEN
ty years ending with 1880 proves to be
that which allows . per cent yearly for
increase by the excess of births over
deaths. and then add the immigration
each year. At that rate the increase
each year since July l. 1880, would be
as follows:
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Through passenger trains arc now
moving from Galveston, Texas, to
Kansas City, Missouri, over the recently
cumpleted Gulf, COlorads and Santa
Fe, and the Atchinson, Topeka and
Santa Fe systems. The time between
the two cities is about thirty-eight
hours.